Stalin's police : public order and mass repression in the USSR, 1926-1941
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Stalin's police : public order and mass repression in the USSR, 1926-1941
Woodrow Wilson Center Press , Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-444) and index
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Description
Stalin's Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering study traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s. Paul Hagenloh argues that the policing methods employed in the late 1930s were the culmination of a set of ideologically driven policies dating back to the previous decade. Hagenloh's vivid and monumental account is the first to show how Stalin's peculiar brand of policing-in which criminals, juvenile delinquents, and other marginalized population groups were seen increasingly as threats to the political and social order-supplied the core mechanism of the Great Terror.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation
Glossary
Introduction: Soviet Policing, Social Categories, and the Great Terror
1. Prerevolutionary Policing, Revolutionary Events, and the New Economic Policy
2. "Chekist in Essence, Chekist in Spirit": The Soviet Police and the Stalin Revolution
3. The New Order, 1932-1934
4. The Police and the "Victory of Socialism," 1934-1936
5. The Stalinist Police
6. Nikolai Ezhov and the Mass Operations, 1937-1938
7. Policing after the Mass Operations, 1938-1941
Conclusion
A Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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